by Chao Min Wu, April 9th, 2024
University of Maryland, HCIM capstone project
Timeline: September 2023 - May 2024
Team members
Chia-Jou Lo
Shu-Ping Chan
Ziyi Yuan
Xin Chen
My role:
UX Designer (Sketch, Prototyping, Screen Refine, Design system), User Interviewer
"Education has the power to transform lives and strengthen communities. —— Edward St. John”
Our client, Flikshop, helps incarcerated people and returning citizens build tech literacy with educational resources and community support.
The ongoing learning management system (LMS) project is a software installed on tablets for correctional facilities such as federal prisons.
In this sprint, we designed a resume building flow to help users transform their learning outcome into a job resume for career use.
<aside> 🇺🇸 There are nearly 2M Individuals in prison or jail in the United States, 240,000+ youth are detained, incarcerated, or both in a year.
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Design and Prototype ****Flikshop.Me, a tablet based learning management system, to sale to correctional facilities or tablet manufacturers, so incarcerated population can access Flikshop’s educational resources through provided tablets.
Design features that supports individuals to transform their learning accomplishment to employment strengths.
According to U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, approximately 600,000 people are released from state and federal prisons annually, with another 9 million people cycled through local jails (Reentry | CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (.gov).